Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, First Pattern Archive and Der Kyffhäuserbund Seinem Kameraden

and Der Kyffhäuserbund Seinem Kameraden Badge

Hessian Landtag (state parliament) and chairman of the FDP Landtag faction

containing 187 pages in addition to 53 supplemental pages

The dogfight took place immediately above the lines of the Canadian Corps

another in Bakelite

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, First Pattern Archive and Der Kyffhäuserbund Seinem Kameraden(Verwundetenabzeichen). Constructed of brass, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, around a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 38. 40 mm (w) x 42. 43 mm (h), weighing 7. 2 grams, the grade of the badge is